Tech industry appeals the bad Texas social media law to SCOTUS

[ad_1] Tech industry trade organizations NetChoice and the Computer Communications Industry Association have appealed directly to the Supreme Court for an emergency stay of the Texas social media law known as HB 20. The law, which creates liability for content moderation decisions that are based on “the viewpoint of the user or another person,” More...

PUBG: Battlegrounds is earning a lot more money after going free-to-play
[ad_1] PUBG: Battlegrounds, the PC and console version of the battle royale shooter series, is making a lot of money following its switch to free-to-play in January, as revealed by developer Krafton’s latest More...

Elon Musk says Twitter deal ‘on hold’ after spam/fake account report
[ad_1] Elon Musk says his deal to buy Twitter is “temporarily on hold” after the social network reported that false or spam accounts comprised less than 5 percent of its 226 million monetizable daily active More...

Meta even brings up the metaverse when rebranding its payment system
[ad_1] Meta is continuing the Meta-fication of its brands by renaming Facebook Pay, its payment system available across Facebook, Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp, to Meta Pay. The change is set to happen “soon,” More...

Watch astronomers reveal a ‘groundbreaking discovery’ of the Milky Way galaxy
[ad_1] This morning, a collaboration of scientists with the Event Horizon Telescope initiative is set to unveil a “groundbreaking discovery” about our Milky Way galaxy. The team has provided little details More...

EV company Lordstown completes $230 million sale of its Ohio factory to Foxconn
[ad_1] Struggling EV company Lordstown completed the sale of its Ohio factory to Foxconn, the Taiwanese company that assembles Apple’s iPhone. The factory, which sold for $230 million, will now become the site More...

Apple will drop iPhone Lightning port in favor of USB-C in 2023, claims analyst
[ad_1] Apple is preparing to swap the proprietary Lightning port on its iPhones next year for the nearly universally-embraced USB-C, claims company analyst Ming-Chi Kuo. In a pair of tweets, Kuo said Apple was More...

Josh Hawley wants to punish Disney by taking copyright law back to 1909
[ad_1] I have been told to blog about Senator Josh Hawley’s new copyright bill, and I do this with nothing but the greatest reluctance. Normally, I love talking about copyright! I’ll talk about copyright More...

Intel details staggered release schedule for long-anticipated Arc GPUs
[ad_1] Intel has provided more details on the release roadmap for its long-awaited discrete Arc GPUs in a new blog post. The company plans to use a staggered approach, which will prioritize system builders and More...

Number go down
[ad_1] Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge People will say all kinds of things about what Bitcoin is: digital gold, the successor to the dollar as a reserve currency, the future of money, whatever. More...